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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, August 30, 2010
 
County considers options with annex
The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Aug 30. 2010
…The commissioners’ original plan to lease the building for $2.58 million over 10 years was scrapped after public outrage. Commissioners voted to pay $605,000 through eminent domain instead, but a court panel later ordered the county to pay $700,000…

Around the towns, 8/29/2010: Honesdale
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Aug 29, 2010
…presenters will explain concepts such as eminent domain and how landowners can search for their particular properties "right-of-way" agreements tied to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, which was built in the 1950s…

Bridge work could delay Winfield sewer project
The Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum, PA – Aug 28, 2010
…From the onset, the project has been hindered by residents refusing to sign land usage rights for sewage lines to run through their property. The board has decided to take legal action against 32 residents and acquire their land by eminent domain…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, August 26, 2010
 
Editorial: Old bad thing Lawyer on both sides of fence
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Aug 26, 2010
…Mr. Hughes also has represented other parties against the city government, including in one active eminent domain case against the Scranton Redevelopment Authority…

Opinion – Letters to the Editor: Not so neighborly
The Times Tribune, Scranton, PA – Aug 26, 2010
…Did they know that a private piping company could become a utility and cry "eminent domain" to tear up my land so my neighbors' gas could be delivered for the good of private wealth?…

Easton, Pektor agree to Marquis Theatre sale
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Aug 25, 2010
…After the Easton Redevelopment Authority began the eminent domain process in March, representatives for both sites filed preliminary objections, saying the move is illegal in part because the land is being seized for private use. The mayor insists it's a public project…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, August 25, 2010
 
Settlement sought over gas firm’s utility status
Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Aug 25, 2010
…The pipeline case has drawn attention because of the prospect that Laser Northeast, as a public utility, could exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire private property for the pipeline…

Philipsburg Borough to make offer on rundown property
The Progress, Clearfield, PA – Aug 24, 2010
…The borough could still perform eminent domain on the property, but McDonald said that would cost more…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, August 24, 2010
 
Scranton considers challenging Hughes’ representation of Old Good Things
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Aug 24, 2010
…also serves as the attorney for three property owners in the 500 block of Lackawanna Avenue in litigation related to eminent domain attempts by the Scranton Redevelopment Authority as part of a larger economic development project…

Editorial: Don’t abandon rights
Observer-Reporter, Washington, PA – Aug 24, 2010
…Everett insists the drilling would only happen after hearings, and this is merely a way to compensate hold-out landowners. But giving energy companies virtual eminent domain rights would tip the balance in their favor to an unacceptable degree…

Gas pipeline company seeks utility status in Pa.
phillyBurbs.com, Philadelphia, PA (Associated Press) – Aug 23, 2010
A hearing is over in Harrisburg about a natural-gas pipeline company's request to become a public utility, a legal status that could enable it to obtain property through eminent domain…

Easton may be nearing land deal
Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Aug 23, 2010
…After the Easton Redevelopment Authority began the eminent domain process in March, representatives for both sites filed preliminary objections, saying the eminent domain process is illegal in part because the land is being seized for private use, though the mayor insists it's a public project…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, August 23, 2010
 
Public hearing to be conducted for proposed natural gas pipeline
Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, NY – Aug 20, 2010
…The company would have to apply for eminent domain powers in state Supreme Court, but Laser president Chip Bertholet said last month the company had not considered the action as of that point…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, August 20, 2010
 
Administrative changes in McKeesport Area School District
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA – Aug 19, 2010
…It could lead to the district acquiring homes along Oliver Alley through eminent domain as early as October. But after backlash from those plans caused the board and city, which owns the property, to table the issue and because the property is on an old, municipal waste dump, school directors announced in June that they were shopping around for another piece of land…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
 
Franklin County seeks 5 volunteers for revitalization authority
Public Opinion, Chambersburg, PA – Aug 18, 2010
…The county's first ordinance of the year established the authority that can exercise the power of eminent domain and issue bonds. Commissioners will appoint five members, whose five-year terms would be staggered initially…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
 
Another natural gas controversy
Gotham Gazette, New York, NY – Aug 17, 2010
…According to Healy, because the project requires laying pipelines under privately owned land and given the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's historic support for eminent domain would lower property values and inhibit investment…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, August 16, 2010
 
Forced pooling may come to PA
WDUQ-FM, Pittsburgh, PA – Aug 16, 2010
State lawmakers are drafting a bill that would essentially give eminent domain rights to natural gas drillers. The practice known as forced pooling is seen in other states and has often been controversial…

Fight against blight: Local towns may get a new tool
The Mercury, Pottstown, PA – Aug 15, 2010
…One, which passed the House of Representatives June 29 by an overwhelming vote of 190 to 8, would allow towns, boroughs and cities of 10,000 people or more to establish "land banks" as a way of more quickly obtaining blighted properties and getting them redeveloped…

Opinion – Paul Carpenter: ‘Pooling’ is a boost for gas profits
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Aug 14, 2010
It's bad enough when the government uses eminent domain to grab your property to build a road or a park. Then, at least, you are supposed to be compensated for what you lost...


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, August 13, 2010
 
U.S. Senate committee OKs effort to expand Gettysburg National Military Park
Public Opinion, Chambersburg, PA – Aug 13, 2010
…The Department of Interior is to acquire publicly owned property within the area by buying from willing sellers only, if efforts to acquire that property without cost have been exhausted. The government cannot exercise eminent domain…

Price increases for Easton parking, museum complex
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Aug 12, 2010
…Hoping to break a
legal standoff over Easton's efforts to seize the sites through eminent domain, officials and the sites' owners are trying to negotiate a sale price.

Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, August 12, 2010
 
Nuangola sewer authority drops eminent domain case
The Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Aug 12, 2010
…The borough sewer authority announced Wednesday eminent domain proceedings against Rice Township residents for a proposed sewer line have been withdrawn…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, August 10, 2010
 
Embattled Monroeville developer hires new attorney
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA – Aug 10, 2010
…The Liggetts claim the properties are now useless because their intention was to combine them for development purposes with the properties they might lose through eminent domain…

Natural Gas drillers want to “pool” around hold-outs
WHYY, Philadelphia, PA – Aug 9, 2010
…And what it is not, it is not eminent domain.” But not all lawmakers agree…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, August 09, 2010
 
Marcellus Shale plan would OK extraction without leases
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA – Aug 7, 2010
…a group of more than 30 environmental groups sent a letter to legislators calling the measure an expansion of eminent domain to benefit corporations. That view is wildly skewed, according to those in favor of the measure, who call it “fair pooling protection.”…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, August 06, 2010
 
DeNaples families owe $4.6 million
The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA – Aug 6, 2010
…The ruling Wednesday by Senior Judge Arthur L. Nims III arose from the $40.9 million settlement with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in a dispute over the value of 122 acres of land in the Keystone Landfill taken by eminent domain for the highway project in 1994…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, August 05, 2010
 
Tax judge says DeNapleses owe IRS $4.6 million
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Aug 5, 2010
…the property that received the major public attention was 122 acres in Louis and Dominick DeNaples' Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore. The state wanted to acquire the land through its power of eminent domain, which allows governments to take private land in exchange for fair compensation…

DeNaples owes $2 million in back taxes
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Aug 4, 2010
…About 100 acres they owned in Lackawanna County was seized by "eminent domain" in the 1990s to make way for the Casey Highway, which connects Interstate 81 and Route 6…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, August 04, 2010
 
Abandoned gas station frustrates township
The Mercury, Pottstown, PA – Aug 4, 2010
…The commissioners continue to mull the idea of having the property condemned and taken over by eminent domain, but recognize the liability they would also be taking on…

Opinion – Len Lichvar: Clean air and water
The Daily American, Somerset, PA – Aug 3, 2010
…When the government is believed to “take” a private property owners right away through such processes as eminent domain or another means the citizens and private property rights organizations loudly and intensely push back…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, August 02, 2010
 
City aims to shame owners of derelict properties
Reading Eagle, Reading, PA – Aug 1, 2010
…and Olsen's committee for two years has been warning the worst of the property owners that if they allow their buildings to deteriorate further, the city will take the properties by eminent domain…

Editorial: Would a transmission line injure the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area?
The Express-Times, Easton, PA – Aug 1, 2010
…The recreation area was created using eminent domain on thousands of private homes and properties to restore the natural setting present prior to human settlement. Why? To create a natural oasis near metropolitan areas of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania…


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